How To Install purity-ng on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install purity-ng on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is purity-ng
purity-ng is:
A program which reads yes/no questions from a specially formated file and administers a quiz with them, printing out then number/percent of yes’s at the end.
The goal of is a reimplementation of “purity” in Python, while still maintaining compatibility with the old dataformat, and to eventually be a drop-in replacement for purity.
There are three methods to install purity-ng on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install purity-ng Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install purity-ng using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install purity-ng
Install purity-ng Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install purity-ng using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install purity-ng
Install purity-ng Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install purity-ng using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install purity-ng
How To Uninstall purity-ng on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the purity-ng package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove purity-ng
Uninstall purity-ng And Its Dependencies
To uninstall purity-ng and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove purity-ng
Remove purity-ng Configurations and Data
To remove purity-ng configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge purity-ng
Remove purity-ng configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove purity-ng configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge purity-ng
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install purity-ng package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
